Blessed Carlo Acutis: Patron Saint of Online Learning
Anyone who has been involved with online schooling in any capacity can attest to its challenges. Being a first-year teacher, I knew last school year would be difficult, but nothing...
BIS Reads // Saints Around the World
I have a dear friend who is a master when it comes to liturgical living. She is creative and intentional and I'm convinced that crafting is her charism. I am...
Dwell // A Study on the Eucharist for Women
"I need Adoration." My friend's evening text put words to the longing on my own heart. In the midst of the shut downs, our usual Holy Hours were cancelled, and...
Saints Who Lived at the Same Time
As a summer girl at heart, I do not need a lot of encouragement to celebrate. Hot days, stormy afternoons, fireworks, ice cream ... I am in! And, I am...
Saint Alphonsus Liguori + Rheumatoid Arthritis
I was nineteen and it all happened very gradually. First I was noticing achy knees and feet, but thought it was due to all of the running I had been...
Martha, Martha // Anxious and Worried about Many Things
One time, I snapped at my husband about the day’s Gospel reading. We didn’t hold opposing beliefs. We didn’t interpret a fundamental teaching differently. We simply read the words uttered...
Meeting at the Golden Gate // Saints Joachim and Anne
Imagine having to learn Scripture, not through paging through the pages of your Bible, but by walking into your church and viewing its artwork. The Legend of St. Joachim, Meeting...
The Thing that Happened in Between
“I was one way … and now I am completely different. And the thing that happened in between … was Him.” These are my favorite lines from Season 1 of...
BIS Reads // Millennial Nuns by The Daughters of St. Paul
On the night before He suffered, Jesus prayed for His disciples, who were "in the world" but who belonged entirely to Him (see John 17). This call of radical discipleship...
Pilgrims Persistent in Prayer
Since early in the new year, I have been tuning in to Father Mike Schmitz’s Bible in a Year Podcast. Recently, we heard the Gospel of Mark. Over and over...
REMEMBER Series // Finding Friendships
Welcome to our Remember series, where we pause to reflect on how God has proven faithful in the past so to help us place our trust in Him in the...
Saint Marguerite Bays // From Seamstress to “Godmother”
Marguerite Bays was born to a farming family in Switzerland in 1815, the second of seven children. She grew up helping her parents with household chores and gardening. In her...
